American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 2023 · Marcella Alsan、Luca Braghieri、Sarah Eichmeyer、Minjeong Joyce Kim、Stefanie Stantcheva、David Y. Yang
中文摘要
我们在COVID-19疫情背景下研究人们以公民自由换取更高健康保障的意愿，采用了涵盖15个国家、约55万份回答的代表性调查。我们记录了不同群体在牺牲权利意愿上的显著异质性：在每个国家，因收入、教育或种族而处于不利地位的公民，比更具优势的同侪更不愿意牺牲权利。利用自然发生的变异和实验方法，我们估计健康不安全感增加一个标准差，会使牺牲公民自由的意愿增加相当于中美公民平均差异的68%–83%。（JEL D12, D91, I12, I18, K38, O17, P36）
Abstract
We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by deploying representative surveys involving around 550,000 responses across 15 countries. We document significant heterogeneity across groups in willingness to sacrifice rights: citizens disadvantaged by income, education, or race are less willing to sacrifice rights than their more advantaged peers in every country. Leveraging naturally occurring variation and experimental approaches, we estimate a one standard deviation increase in health insecurity increases willingness to sacrifice civil liberties by 68–83 percent of the difference between the average Chinese and US citizen. (JEL D12, D91, I12, I18, K38, O17, P36)